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How to Add my Custom Language Pack to W1 Version?

Ashwini Tripathi

Post you build the PartnerTranslation solution from inside Visual Studio, choose Build Solution from the Build menu.

This will pick up all translated artifacts, and create three installer files (.msi):

  • Server.msi – Located in the Server\Bin\Debug folder.
  • RTC.msi – Located in the RTC\Bin\Debug folder.
  • WebClient.msi – Located in the WebClient\Bin\Debug folder.

You can check my earlier post for more details:

How do I translate my ResX Files?

Managing Multilanguage support in Navision Overview

 

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Install the new language pack on the target computer with W1. To do this, select and click each of the three .msi files listed below, one after the other. The order is not significant:

  • Server\Bin\Debug\Server.msi
  • RTC\Bin\Debug\RTC.msi
  • WebClient\Bin\Debug\WebClient.msi

Each installer quickly shows a dialog, which disappears when the installer has completed.

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The language pack is now installed, but you must make some final configuration.

Next step is to register root assemblies with strong name key token in the Add-ins table

Microsoft Dynamics NAV cannot load untrusted assemblies. To enable your custom resource assemblies as trusted, you must register the strong name key in the database:

  1. Open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment.
  2. On the View menu, choose Object Designer, and then choose Table.
  3. Navigate to the Add-in table, table 2000000069, and then choose Run.
  4. For each assembly, enter the name and the public key token used when signing the files. The assemblies to add can be found in the Output folder of Partner Translation Tool Project.

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To find the public key token, use the Strong Name tool (sn.exe) with the -T parameter.

At the command prompt, enter the following command: sn.exe –T

For example, enter the following command to find the public key token for the Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.UI.dll file:

sn.exe –T Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.UI.dll.

The sample assemblies that are included in the Partner Translation solution have the following signature: 15e5b2499d4875c1.

Optionally, you can use PowerShell to register a strong name key for the custom resource assemblies.

New-NAVAddIn -AddInName -PublicKeyToken -Category LanguageResource

Next step is, you need to update the Languages page:

  1. In the Object Designer, choose Pages.
  2. Navigate to the Languages page, page 9, and then choose Run.
  3. Add the Arabic Jordan (ARJ) language to it.

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Restart the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server service

To enable the newly added language, you must restart the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server service:

  1. Choose the Start button, point to Administrative Tools, and then choose Services.
  2. In the Services window, right-click Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server, and on the shortcut menu, choose Restart.

Connect to the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server and select the new language

After you have restarted the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server service, you can then open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Client and select the new language:

  1. Choose the Start button, and then choose Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
  2. Choose Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and then choose Select Language.
  3. In the Language Selection field, select the new language, Arabic (Jordan), and then choose the OK button.

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Complete Captions are not translated for this project yet at the time of writing of this post and it is in progress, but the sample screen will look like one shown below.

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Will come up with more details in my upcoming posts, till then keep exploring and learning.

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Working with Project “Madeira” Content Pack for Power BI

Ashwini Tripathi

In today’s post we will see how to use Power BI Content Pack for Madeira.

The content pack is preconfigured to work with sales data and financial data from the demonstration company that you get when you sign up for the Project “Madeira” preview.

To see your Project “Madeira” data in Power BI, you must have the following:

  • Access to Project “Madeira”.
  • Access to Power BI.

Before we start with connecting we will collect few information that we will require while connecting the Power BI to fetch data from Madeira.

User Name

Web Service Acess Key

Note down both value, if you don’t have Web Service Access Key Generate one and set appropriate Expiration date or Set Never Expire as shown below.

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Next open the Web Service Page.

Make sure all selected Web Service is running as in below screen.

The data is extracted from your Project “Madeira” company using web services to read live data. In Project “Madeira”, the Web Services window lists the web services that have been set up for you, including the following that are consumed by the content pack in Power BI:

  • ItemSalesAndProfit
  • ItemSalesByCustomer
  • powerbifinance
  • SalesDashboard
  • SalesOpportunities
  • SalesOrdersBySalesPerson
  • TopCustomerOverview

Note: If you change the name of any of these web services, the data will not show up in Power BI.

Note your URL of OData. Edit it to follow the format one shown in below screen.

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Now we have all our required information.

Open Power BI site and Get Data from Services as shown in below screen.

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Select Project “Madeira” Content Pack and click on Get.

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Enter the URL of Web Service we get in above step.

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Select Next.

Select Authentication method as Basic.

In User Name enter your user name as obtained in above step.

For Password ented the Web Service Access Key as obtained in above step.

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Choose Sign In.

After few minutes/seconds churning you will be ready with your first Dashboard from Madeira.

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Troubleshooting

“Parameter validation failed, please make sure all parameters are valid”
If you see this error after you enter your Project “Madeira” URL, make sure the following requirements are satisfied:

“Login failed”
If you get a “login failed” error when you log in to the dashboard, using your Project “Madeira” credentials, then this can be caused by one of the following issues:

  • The account you are using does not have permissions to read the Project “Madeira” data from your account.

    Verify your user account in Project “Madeira”, and make sure that you have used the right web service access key as the password, and then try again.

  • The Project “Madeira” instance that you are trying to connect to does not have a valid SSL certificate. In this case you’ll see a more detailed error message (“unable to establish trusted SSL relationship”).

    Note: Self-signed certificates are not supported.

“Oops”
If you see an “Oops” error dialog after you pass the authentication dialog, this is most frequently caused by a problem connecting to the data for the content pack.

Thats all for today’s post.

I will comeup with more details in my upcomming posts.

Til then keep exploring and learning.

 

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Microsoft Power BI – My Organization Content Pack Library

Ashwini Tripathi

Continuing from my previous post. Today we will discuss about Content Pack Library (My Organization) in Power BI.

In case you have missed my previous posts here I present the link to all previous posts below:

Microsoft Power BI – Part – I

Introduction to Power BI and Creating Report from Excel Data, Local Files.

Microsoft Power BI – Part – II

Introduction to few Features of Power BI

Microsoft Power BI – Part – III

Power BI Desktop, Creating Dataset & Reports from In Premise Database installation

Microsoft Power BI – Part – IV

Power BI Gateway usage

Microsoft Power BI – Part – V

Scheduling Refresh of Dataset & Report created using In Premise Database

Microsoft Power BI – Part – VI

Power BI Content Pack

Microsoft Power BI – Part – VII

Power BI Mobile App

Microsoft Power BI – Part – VIII

Power BI Content Pack

Microsoft Power BI – Part – IX

Power BI Publisher for Excel

Microsoft Power BI – Part – X

Analyse in Excel (preview)

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Login to Power BI using your credentials.

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Select Get Data.

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From Content Pack Library section select Get Data under My Organization.

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Select Create content pack.

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This is the part where majority of work to be performed.

In First Section – Choose who will have access to this content pack

You have 2 option

  1. You can share with specific users or Groups, since your AD is in sync with your in premise AD you can select them.
  2. You can share with your entire Organization.

Select the Group or Users if you go with first option.

In Second Section – Provide Title for you Content Pack

In Third Section – Provide detailed Description for your content pack.

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In Fourth Section – You can select Image for your content pack.

Finally in Fifth Section you will define what all content you want to share for the user using this content pack.

Here all available contents are divided under 3 sections (Dashboards, Reports & Datasets).

When you select Dashboard all included Reports and Dataset will be shared by default.

When you select Reports all included Datasets will be shared by default.

When you select Dataset only that will be shared.

You can select combination as you desire.

I will provide write up why we will select selective contents to share with case study, in my future post some time other.

Once you are done with all above step you are good to Publish the Content Pack.

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If we revisit the Get Data option again for My Organization, we can view our Published Content Pack which we shared with others.

User can customize as per his need and Share with others in form of New Content Pack or as-it-is depends.

Good Example will be we have one Content Pack for My Organization which include all modules Dashboard, Reports and Datasets.

My IT will create Module wise Content Pack (Finance, Sales, Purchase, Warehouse, Manufacturing etc…) and share these content packs with concern department Heads. Further each Heads will create sub-content pack and share with their team with information which is related to them and so on.

 

That’s all for today, will come up with more information in my future posts.

Till then keep exploring and learning.

 

 

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Microsoft Power BI – Part VIII

Ashwini Tripathi

Continuing from my previous post. Today we will see usage of Power Content Pack to Refresh in Premise Navision Installation using Personnel Gateway.

Please see my previous post it will help you in continuing with this Walkthrough.

In case you have missed here I present the link to all previous posts here below.

Microsoft Power BI – Part – I

Introduction to Power BI and Creating Report from Excel Data, Local Files.

Microsoft Power BI – Part – II

Introduction to few Features of Power BI

Microsoft Power BI – Part – III

Power BI Desktop, Creating Dataset & Reports from In Premise Database installation

Microsoft Power BI – Part – IV

Power BI Gateway usage

Microsoft Power BI – Part – V

Scheduling Refresh of Dataset & Report created using In Premise Database

Microsoft Power BI – Part – VI

Power BI Content Pack

Microsoft Power BI – Part – VII

Power BI Mobile App

Step -1

Check your Service is up & running, here we are not going to use SLL in fact Personnel Gateway.

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Step -2

Make sure you Imported your Query Objects required for Power BI Dynamics Nav Content Pack. If you are not using NAV-2016, in my case I am using NAV-2015 for this Walkthrough.

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Step -3

Make sure your Web Services are published.

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Step -4

You have installed the Power BI Gateway – Personal and Login to it using your Credentials.

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Step – 5

Login to PowerBI using your Credentials and choose Get Data from Bottom Left Corner in your Navigation Bar.

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Step – 6

Connect Your Service using MS Dynamics Content Pack.

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Notice here I am not using https:// also remove any ‘/’ and Service name from the URL.

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Set your Authentication Mode and Sign In.

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It will take some moment and your Dataset, Report & Dashboard will be available to you.

Graphical representation and data may vary depending upon data in your database.

We are done.

For further detail on any step you can refer previous posts for any clarifications, Links provided above.

Will come up with more details in my upcoming posts.

Till then keep trying and practicing.

 

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Microsoft Power BI for Beginners Table of Content

Ashwini Tripathi

In March I have written few posts on Power BI keeping in mind who are beginners.

In case you have missed here I present the link to all those posts here below.

 

Microsoft Power BI – Part – I

Introduction to Power BI and Creating Report from Excel Data, Local Files.

Microsoft Power BI – Part – II

Introduction to few Features of Power BI

Microsoft Power BI – Part – III

Power BI Desktop, Creating Dataset & Reports from In Premise Database installation

Microsoft Power BI – Part – IV

Power BI Gateway usage

Microsoft Power BI – Part – V

Scheduling Refresh of Dataset & Report created using In Premise Database

Microsoft Power BI – Part – VI

Power BI Microsoft NAV Content Pack

Microsoft Power BI – Part – VII

Power BI Mobile App

Microsoft Power BI – Part – VIII

Power BI Content Pack

Microsoft Power BI – Part – IX

Power BI Publisher for Excel

Microsoft Power BI – Part – X

ANALYZE IN EXCEL

I will come up with more features and other important details in my future posts.

You can find lots of materials on Power BI here : https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/

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Microsoft Power BI – Part – VI

Ashwini Tripathi

Continuing from my previous post, if you have not seen yet please check it out it will help you continuing with this post.

You can check:

Microsoft Power BI – Part – I

Microsoft Power BI – Part – II

Microsoft Power BI – Part – III

Microsoft Power BI – Part – IV

Microsoft Power BI – Part – V

Today we will discuss how to use Power BI Content Pack:

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Few things to keep in mind to get report Generated Successfully.

Point-1 You have required objects for this content pack in your database.

If you are using 2016, you can skip this as these objects are available in 2016. If you are using 2015 or 2013 then export these objects from 2016 and import in your database.

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Above Pages will be present in your previous version of database, you need to import the 6 Query objects. These are necessary as these are used as source to fetch data from your data base by this content pack.

Point-2 Web Services need to be published.

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Make sure you use same name for Services as you may get error while connecting and refreshing/ fetching data using this content pack.

Point-3 SSL port and web address is used to access the services.

https is used as this will not work on http.

Self-signed certificate will not work which we use for test purpose for publishing services and testing. It will throw Trusted relationship connection type error. If you have one use the same instead using Self-signed certificate.

No worries, don’t be disappointed. I will give you tip to overcome this requirement just follow as below:

You may remember that in our previous post we installed and used Power BI Gateway, actually we got a Trusted Certificate which we can use for this purpose.

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Open IIS Manager on your system.

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Select Serve/ Machine in Left Navigation Tree and Select Server Certificates.

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Locate the Data Management Gateway SSL Certificate, this got installed when you installed Gateway. Double click to open the Properties of the certificate.

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Switch to Details Tab, Scroll down to find Thumbprint, and Copy the Thumbprint and paste to Notepad finally remove all space leading, trailing and any in between.

It should look like above right bottom corner notepad window no space in Thumbprint signature.

Copy this Value and use as Thumbprint in you Navision Service.

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Select Your Service.

Edit.

Paste the Certificate Thumbprint.

Make Sure SSL is Enabled for your OData Services.

Save.

Restart the Service.

We are done with the basic requirements now let us connect using Power BI Miscrosoft Navision Content Pack.

Now Login with your credentials to Power BI.

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From Left bottom corner Select Get Data.

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Select Get Data from Services.

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Scroll to find Microsoft Dynamics NAV Services and Select Connect.

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Copy your OData Service URL. Make sure you remove Service name from the URL and trailing ‘/’ after company name from the URL.

Select Next.

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Select the Authentication Method and then Sign In.

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Wait for few minutes you dataset will be loaded.

As a result you will get: Dataset, Report & Dashboard ready for you in few minutes depending upon the data volume and connection speed.

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The report and dashboard view will be as per the available data in your database.

Hurray!!!

You are done with your practice session.

This is a Holi Gift for my reader from my side.

I will come up with more features explanation and other Tips & Tricks in my upcoming posts, till then keep practicing and learning from blogs and helps available online.